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THE SOUTH 



DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 



A SPEECH BY 






D. A. ROBERTSON 



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DELIVERED IN ST. PAUL, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 30. 




SAINT PAUL: 

GOODRICH, SOMERS, & CO., PRINTERS. 

PIONEBR AND DEMOCRAT OFFICE. 

1857. 









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SPEECH OF D. A. ROBERTSON, 



IN DEFENCE OF THE SOUTH AND THE NATIONAL DEMOCRACY AGAINST rHE ASSAULTS OF THE 

REPUBLICAN PARTY. DELIVERED BEFORE THE CENTRAL DEMOCF.ATIC 

CLUB AT ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA TERRITORY, WEDNESDAY 

EVENING, SEPT. 30, 1857. 



Fellow-Citizens: 

We are here tonight to invoke you as 
citizens of Minnesota, to stand by the con- 
ttitution of our common country ; and to 
call upon you as patriotic and intelligent 
freemen to pursue a course of political ac- 
tion that will promote the best interests of 
our embryo State. 

WHAT ARE THE PRINCIPLES AND POLICY OF 
THE REPUBLICANS ? 

From this same rostrum you have been 
harangued by gentlemen of the Republican 
party .^ What has been their declaration of 
principles ? what their avowal of public 
policy ? What have been their appeals to 
the people ? Nothing, absolutely nothing 
but hostility to the South. And why in- 
dulge they in constant and increasing vitu- 
peration of the South ? Because to obtain 
political power, they must first prostrate the 
Democratic party, which is national ; and to 
accomplish this preliminary object, therG is 
no other way than to alarm and infuriate 
the voters of Minnesota against the slaves 
holders of the Southern States, and then to 
charge upon the Democrats of Minnesota, 
that they are in league with the South 
against the rights and interests of the whole 
North. In pursuance of this preconcerted 
policy do they labor day and night in the 
public forum, in then- newspapers, in the 
street, and in the households ; to falsify his- 



tory, to distort political facts, and to misre- 
present the principles, the actions and the 
aims of the Democratic party. 

THE REPUBLICANS SECTIONAL AXD SOUTH- 
HATING. 

The unity and fraternity of the States — 
an all-embracing, an all-cherishing nation- 
ality, (such as we maintain,) — would be 
fatal to their fanatical designs and base am- 
bitions; therefore, must they be sectional, to 
excite the people against the slaveholders 
of the South, as our most dangerous ene- 
mies, whose only aim and policy is to crush 
the people of the North, and to make 
slavery everywhere victorious over free 
speech, free soil and free laborl By such 
appeals to ignorance, prejudice, misappre- 
hension, fanaticism, misguided sympathy, 
and honest error of judgment, they expect 
to foment between you and the people of 
the South an implacable and irreconcilable 
enmity. By such traitorous means have 
these Republican leaders already succeeded 
in creating throughout the country a most 
formidable and alarming negro-mania. Al- 
ready, by such means, have they provoked 
between themselves and the men of the 
South a more violent and rancorous hatred — 
destroying all hereditary hospitality-*-thaa 
exists between the people of any two civil- 
ized nations upon the face of the earth. 

THEIR HIGHER LAW AND WARFARE UPON THE 
SOUTH. 

By this wild and unre^isoniug warfare 



apon the South, have they ahvady succeed- and ride into office over a defeated Demo- 
3d in placing several powerful Northern cratic party. 

States in a position of open hostility to the I am here to-night, fellow citizens, to de- 
compacts of the Constitution, and to the fend the States of the South, against the. 
executive, judicial, and administrative action malicious and slanderous assaults of these 
of the General Government. They have, Black Republicans of the North. It is meet 
30 far as was in their power, repudiated the that this should be done plainly, openly, 
American Constitution and nullified the fearlessly and immediately. Permit me, fel- 
Union. This they have done under the as- low Democrats, to utter this defence in my 
sumed authority of a higher law of their own way. neither you nor the Democratic 
own creating — an assumed higher law, which party being responsible for any mistake I may 
over rides the Constitution. A higher law make, real, or imaginary, or for anything I 
which authorizes, nay, commands, negro say in attempting what I esteem to be a just, 
stealing, rai^ine, and murder, instigated and a true and an honorable vindication of the 
carried on against the South, by mad- South. 

brained zealots, and wicked fanatics of Would the honest and patriotic people — 
the North, who are the pioneers and and of such are the great mass of our 
vanguard, the sappers and miners of the opponents — who have been deluded by the 
Black Republican party. These are the Republican leaders, but pause calmly and 
men who band together to foment slave in- without prejudice, think you they would be- 
surrection, to entice negro slaves from their lieve there is danger immediate or remote, 
owners, and to mob and assail with violence, to be apprehended from southern slave- 
any officers of the Federal Government who holders ? Would they then believe, think 
may attempt to perform their duty for the you, that the much-abused South, has in 
return of fugitive slaves. These are the any way assailed our public rights, or pri- 
howlers and mourners of Black Republican- vate interests? Would they then believe 
ism, who split their throats in cries for Free that the South has been faithless to the 
Kansas, free labor, free soil, and free speech ! Constitution ? Would they then believe 
These are the shriekers of the Republican that there is in the negro slavery of the 
party, who would publicly rejoice over the South, something inherently inconsistent with 
news of a Southern slave revolt, with all its the glory and liberties of the Republic? — 
appalling horrors, fiendish savagery, and re- Would they then believe that the South is 
suiting destruction of the white man a burthen, a tax, an incubus upon the North? 
as well as inevitable vagrancy and barbar- Would they then maintain that a southron 
ism of the negi'O. Can fanatical furor go and a slaveholder cannot be as pure a 
further than this ? christian, and as patriotic a citizen as he 

What apology to their own consciences do would be, were he not a slaveholder ? 
those of the Republican leaders, who know how democrats must meet the republicans. 
this warfare upon the South is dangerous 
and wicked; — what I ask. do honest, intelli- 
gent Republicans, (not underground negro 
stealers) apply to their own consciences as a 
salvo, a soothing balm for the aches and 



Let us go, Fellow-Democrats, into the 

strongholds of the Republican party, with 

plain arguments upon pending issues ; and 

an honest, manly appeal to the good sense 

1 • n- i Vi ii • i -i. i-^- 1 and patriotism of the people I do be- 

wounds inflicted by their traitorous polit.ca ^.^^^ l,^ ^^-^^ j^^^ .^ ^^^ ^, J ^^'^j. ^^ ^^ 

action? It IS ihm-m]y t\us, party pohaj ! thousands of our fellow-citizens, who have 
party expediena^J and a ravenov.s hankering been deluded by Republican leaders, that 



for the spoils and dignities of office 

THE DEMOCRACY NATIONAL THE SOUTH VIN- 
DICATED. 

Like the fathers of the Repuljlic, the Dein 
ocrats»are national, regarding the slavehold 
ers of the South, as men and brethren.— 



their whole political superstructure rests 
upon a sandy foundation of error and 
falsehood. 

Ho who would grap])le successfully with 
popular faLsehodd, must, as we say in homely 
phrase, '-take the bull by the horns." No 



Therefore, it is that these " Republicans'" thing short of this will enable us to over- 
seize upon the abolition furor to raise a come the rampant fanaticism of our oppon- 
whirlwind of passion against the South, with ents. We must force them to a sclf-examin- 
the hope of being able to guide the storm, ation of their opinions and prejudices. To 



do this we mnst ourselves be able to discern Clay. Was not he too a Southrou and a 

.the truth in all its comprehensiveness. By slavehorder ? 

granting, or timidly evading half their fal- Why then, in the name of all that is be- 
lacies, we yield to them at the outset, more coming in a man and a christian, I ask you, 
than half a triumph. gentlemen of the Republican party, why 
Let us go, then, fellow citizens, to the very have you joined tht old abolitionists in a 
foundation of this sectional, this geograph- ferocious war-cry against Southern slave- 
ical party. Let us but do our whole duty holders, as if they were dangerous enemies 
in this canvass, and we may never again be of the Republic ? — As if they were so base 
called upon to cut o3' the ever-renewing and so wicked, that a party, or a public 
heads of that hydra monster, Abolition. Let man, who refuses to join in your crusade 
us do our duty now, by defeating, with over- against them, is denounced by you as a re- 
whelming majorities, this party of civil dis- creant, as a •' doughface," as a pro-slavery 
cord, and national dissolution, and then the enemy who merits only the hatred and exe- 
whole body of the abolition beast of Minnes- cration of the Xorth ! 
Ota, will lose its vitality, and never more will ^vhat grievance h.we you agaixst the 
it have power to disturb the repose, or men- . , 
ace the honor and prosperity of our infant soixii. 
State Men of Minnesota! wh^it urievauce have 

ARE THE REPUBLICANS JUSTIFIED IN RAISING T'' ^^^'T !"' ^''''^^- ' ^^J,^-^^^ ^"^^ 

A FUROR AGAINST SOUTHRONS AND SLAVE- ^f^'T.f f i^'' '''^ impatient prockim 

'? Mmnesota to the world, an abolition State r 

^. , -r, °,',. What revenge have you to gratify against 

li there are any Republicans present, I slaveholders ? 

call upon them to answer to their own judg- "Who, let me ask vou, have been among 

ments and their own consciences, if m truth your best friends in Congress? Southrons and 

tuere are good reasons why any man should slaveholders; ves. I repeat it. and remember 

labor to raise among the people of Minnes- the fact, they have been southrons and slave- 

ota a furor of excitement against our holders I It vou doubt this, review the 

countrymen of the South ? Is it, in this records of Couo-ress. 

year of iSoT, a disgrace and a crime to be Xo the influence of what eminent states- 

a Southron and a slaveholder? Have South- man, co-operatin? with your deletrate in 

ron men and ^slaveholders been the bane of CongTess, have you been more indebted 

the Republic . than to any other man, for our late munifi- 

Was not the Father of our Country, he cent grant of lands for railroad purposes ? 
who was the first in war, first in peace, This statesman to whom the people of Min- 
and first in the hearts of his country- nesota owe so large a debt of gratitude 
men — he who bequeathed to us as his was Senator Toombs of Georgia — a 
richest legacy, a love for the whole Union, southron and a slaveholder. Yes, I aga'n, 
and a warning against geographical parties repeat, prominent among the best friends 
— he whom God appointed to lead our ar- of Minnesota in Congress, have been 
mies triumphant through the Revolution — southron men and slaveholders. They 
was not he a Southron and a slaveholder ? most cheerfully gave you all, naj 
And the hero of the second war, Andrew more than you a.sked, to build up here a 
Jackson, was not [he |too a Southron andja giant State of free white men. ;When- 
slaveholder ? And the dauntless Rough- ever you wanted an Indian title extin- 
and- Ready, the approved hero of the last guished, to make ample homes for free white 
war, was not he also a Southron and a men of the Xorth, for free M'hite men of the 
slaveholder? Xot only in the field but also old world as well as the new; for these very 
in the National Executive, have not many declaimers against the South themselves, 
of our most revered patriots been Southrons what were the responses of these abused 
and slaveholders ? In the Xational Coun- southrons and slaveholders? Quick votes to 
cils have not our most able and brilliant gratify your highest hopes, which then re- 
statesmen embraced many Southrons and ceived the applauding thanks of all men of 
slaveholders ? Who has been adjudged by Minnesota. And then to hasten the settle- 
all men as the most brilliant and bewitching raent of Minnesota by free white men, the 
orator of the Senate Chamber? Henry South was united in giving the right of pre- 



emption over unsurveved lands to our peo- 
ple. Munificent have been the Congres- 
sional grants to Minnesota, for public im- 
provements, roads, schools, and public 
buildings, all. all, cheerfully, nay, zealously 
supported by these now maligned sonturons 
and slaveholders . At the last session of 
Congress all the soTithern men of the Senate 
united in voting an appropriation of §150,- 
000 for a Custom House and Post Office for 
St; Paul, which appropriation was defeated 
in committee of conference by Xorthern men. 
These, citizens of Minnesota, are facts, unan- 
swerable facts, M-hich demonstrate the ingrat- 
itude, and perfidy of the attempt now so in- 
dustriously made by the Republican orators 
and editors, to infuriate the people of Min- 
nesota against the South. 

WHY SHALL MINNESOTA CFIANGE THE NATION- 
AL POLICY UNDER WHICH SHE HAS PROS- 
PERED ? 

Thus far, Minnesota has been national in 
her sympathies, and avowed politics. Thus 
far the men of the South have been esteem- 
ed our" countrymen, our friends, our breth- 
ren. Thus far our Representatives in Con- 
gress have been National Democrats. Such 
has been our policy in our pupilage. Is 
there any sound or patriotic reason why we 
should change it now on attaining maturity? 
Shall we change the policy which has work- 
ed so well, thus far, in order to send Morton 
S. Wilkinson, who glories in his rampant 
Abolitionism, to Congress I Shall we repu- 
diate our good old National policy to make 
Alexander Ramsey, a leader of Black Re- 
publicanism, Governor of our new State ? 
"What has he or any man done to merit so 
great a sacrifice ? Shall we cast aside our 
friends, disregard our immediate interests, 
public and private, to bestow office and 
emoluments upon the leaders of a sectional 
party? Make all our State officers Aboli- 
tion, bestow public patronage upon the Ab- 
olition press ; send Abolitionists doing bat- 
tle under Mrs. Stowe and Mr. Sumner, as 
"Republicans" to Congress, and then contem- 
plate fur a moment, the effect upon yourselves 
and upon the future of Minnesota I 

WHY NATIONAL DEMOCRATS ARE THE liE.ST 
I'OR US TO SEND TO CONGRESS. 

Our Delegates in Congress, the lion. II. 
n. Sibley and lion. H. M. Rice, have been 
National Democrats, and to this fact, united 
with their capacity, theii' character as gen- 
tlemen, and their energy and dei,'otion to 



the public weal, are we indebted for much 
of the amazing Territorial progress and 
prosperity which so distinguish Minnesota. 
Had they been such mad-brained Aboli- 
tionists as Morton S. Wilkinson and his 
compeers, think you they would have been 
entitled to any thing but cold official court- 
esy, from national men, either of the South 
or the North? ' If you deliver over our 
new State to sectional agitators, where can 
they look for fi-iends, save among the limp- 
ing abortions of Abolitionism, who are as 
obnoxious, and as impotent for good, as 
themselves! If you make a sectional war 
upon the South, think you the men of tho 
South are so weak, so craven, that they 
will make haste to conciliate your malice ? 
Republicans of Minnesota! before you 
determine to vote for the howling dervishes 
of your party, pause and reflect upon the 
cost! If after a candid review of the whole 
subject, you deem it your duty to make Min- 
nesota Republican, do so at whatever sacri- 
fice. In that case, though I may regard 
your judgment as bewildered or insane, I 
cannot but respect your courage and your 
motives ; yet, as your fellow-citizen, permit 
me to implore you by every interest, public 
and private, not to throw our new State 
away, for the sake of electing any man to 
office, or to gratify mere habitual hostility 
to the Democratic party — aye, that would 
be worse than throwing the State away, it 
would l^e to fling it as an insult into the 
teeth of our Southern friends, and then to 
hang it up in the National Capitol as the 
Diackened star of the Northwest — a humili- 
ation to the national men of the whole Re- 
public 1 

SHALL WE DRIVE BACK THE VISITORS AND 
MONEY OF THE SOUTH ? 

St. Paul and the whole territory are now 
safTering the pangs of a wide-spread panic. 
If any of our citizens wish to increase our fu- 
ture embarrassments, let them join the Re- 
publican hunt, started up here, to run down 
the South— let them increase the howl of ex- 
ecration against our Soutiiern friends, whose 
sons arc here, whose money is here, whose 
hearts have thus far been here- let them 
continue to be anathematized by our Repub- 
lican orators, our Republican editors, and 
the whole Republican community, as wicived 
men, as dangerous men, as man-stealers, be- 
caus:^ they are Southrons, and slaveholders ! 
Do this, and the Sou'herners, who are pecu- 



^liar for holding men responsible for what ship with them, aal deal with them as equals 

they say, will soon understand that they are aud friends. 

not considered respectable and cannot feel let the southrons come and build their 
comfortable in this community, and they summer homes among us. 

will therefore seek some other Northern tu- --n -j jji* *- 

v>ui Luciciui^ ^c K^iu;^. ;-. .,^f +I10 I be leve in Providence, and doubt not — 

State, where rampant abohtiot is not the , t <• 1 • 1 + +1 ^ ^-, u t ^^„k+ 
,. ' . , .' 4. 4.1 „• „„„„+„.,+!„;„ vet I feel anxious about the result. 1 doubt 
rulin'>" passion, to invest their constantly in- ■' , .^ u ^ ii xt +• 1 r\„ ^«„ « 

9 1 ,11 1 +„i f„„,„ not, I say, but the National Democracy 

creasing surplus of cash, accij^aiulated f 0^^^ wil carry the State, and that our fraternal 
the proceeds of slave grown cotton and slave ^^i^^ions with the people of the South will 
grown sugai. go on increasing till manv more millions of 

MINNESOTA THE SUMMER HOME OF SOUTHERN ^j^g-j. capital shall bc iuvestcd iu the state 
*i^*^- to employ our free labor, and beautify town 

This, our noble river, which I now look and country. I hope to see their summer 
down upon, freighted with its floating pal- villas by thousands, mingled with those of 
aces, runs through the heart of Minnesota our own people, to improve the enchanting 
and the heart of the South, and seems to be views spread in such rich profusion about 
a bond of affectionate union between them, our lakes, rivers, bluffs and prairies. 
Providence seems to have designed it as a This has long been a cherished hope with 
highway of commercial and social inter- me. To it have I looked as one of the rich 
course between the Nort'i and the South — resources of our future. The men of the 
and Minnesota seems to have been preor- South have already invested, I believe, in 
dained, above all other regions of our broad this vicinity, a larger amount of money than 
continent, as the summer home of the non-resident capitalists of the North — aud I 
wealthy classes of the South. It seems to know the fact that numerous Southron peo- 
have been appointed by the Almighty, that pie contemplate making improvements as 
in the season when fever and pestilence investments, and in building summer resideu- 
reigns in the South, her sons and daughters ces among us — and the same will be the case 
should leave there, and come up here to Min- throughout the Territory, unless we drive 
nesota, to our busy cities, our thriving them away, by making Minnesota another 
towns, our cheerful hamlets — and to our Massachusetts, with abolitionism inaugu- 
prairies, our beautiful lakes, and sparkling rated in the capitol. 

waterfalls to_ breathe a bracin- atmos- ^^ ^^ ^ ^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ op ^^^ ^^^^.^ ^^ ^^, 
phere, and to inhale for a few months every ^.^^^ money here ? 

ycijr, invigorating power, to enable them to ' - " . 

continue the mastery and fruitful possessiori At this moment and for some time to 
of their own land of the sugar cane, the come, whither can our people look for mon- 
cotton plant, the fig, and the palm tree, etaryhelp? Whither shall many of us seek 
Why shall we drive them back fi-om our for purchasers for a portion of our real es- 
hotels and pleasant retreats ? Why shall tate, to save us from bankruptcy ? Is it not 
we say to them, here in Minnesota, there is to the rich slaveholders— the cott:^n and 
no longer a summer retreat for you, save sugar planters and monied men of the South? 
among the howling fanatics of abolitionism ? They alone, as communities, have cash to 
Shall we send them this word on the second spare. The abolition prints all over the 
Tuesday of October next ?— that here in abolition States have been spearing at them 
this, their pet Territory, is another abolition after some " nigger under^ the wood pile," 
Massachusetts, where they can no longer because these men of the South have been 
come without the risk of contumely and in- investing large amounts of their money 
suit ? among our citizens. A cry of_ alarm has 

No ! no ! fellow-citizens, let not this be been raised among the abolitionists of Mas- 
our herald to the good people of the South, sachusetts, because Vice President Breck- 
Rather let us at the ballot-box proclaim to enridge, Col. Orr, and Governor Aiken, of 
them and the world, that all white men. South Carolina, and a host of other South- 
whether ot the South or the North, whether ron slaveholders, have been up here to leave 
of native or foreign birth, may be equals their money among us. A cry of alarm has 
among us— that we will eat with them, been raised and passed along from Massa- 
drink^with them, intermarry with them, wor- chusetts to the British line, that Minnesota 



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must be saved to the Black Republic now, 
or be lost forever ! 

THE EXECRABLE LIES OF THE ABOLITIONISTS. 

It seems to be a grievance to these men 
of the Black Republic, that a Southerner 
should come up here even to help us. Large 
Southron investments, as you know, have 
been made here, enabling us to employ a 
greater number of laboring men ; and yet, 
our own abolition Republicans have been so 
shameless and so dishonest — could anything 
be more execrable ?— as to go about among 
laboring men, who are thus kept at work, 
and teirthem that it is the fixed purpose of 
the Democrats to get these Southron slave- 
holders to come here with their negroes, to 
compete with free white labor ! And these 
abolitionists have circulated broadcast 
among the laboring men little red republican 
tickets which they give to them and drop 
about the streets, designed to make ignorant 
people believe that if they do not vote for 
Alexander Ramsey and the whole Black 
Republican ticket, they will be thrown out 
of work by the competition of negro slaves I 
Perfidious falsehood ! and they know it^ — 
perfidious falsehood. I say, and none but 
knaves or fools are its authors, publishers, 
and circulators. 

THE STVPIDITT OF THIS ABOLITION LIE EX- 
POSED. 

Negro slavery in Minnesota to compete 
with white labor? "What man, be he native 
born. Irishman or German, is there so igno- 
rant that he can be made to believe a false- 
hood so stupid as this? 

Go to the cities of the East, and there 
you will learn that, many years ago. nu- 
merous employments of common labor, were 
filled by free negroes, who have been com- 
pletely supplanted by the superior skill and 
energy of the poor white men, increased in 
numbers by immi^-ratiun. The fact is, that 
negro slavery never can be made to pay in 
any climate where the white man can work 
without degenerating. It is only in tropical 
or semi-tropical climates, that negro slavery 
can be made profitable, and that, for the 
only reason that in such climates, the negro 
may work and thrive, while men of the 
* white race, if re(|uired to labor, soon decay 
and disappear. It is not tlie abolition party, 
or any other party, or human power, that 
prescribes tlie boundaries of free soil, but 
climate. These red ticket falsifiers know 



that our State Constitution as it came from 
the hands of the Democratic Convention, 
and as it is, prohibits the existence of invol- 
untary servitude in Minnesota. Yet thus 
they lie. wilfully lie, to make Alexander 
Ramsey Governor, and Morton S. Wilkinson, 
member of Congress ! 

WHO ARE THE FRIENDS OF FREE LABOR ? 

Who, in fact, are the best friends of 
the free white labor of the North I main- 
tain, and will undertake to demonstrate to 
every intelligent and reflecting man, that 
they are the National Domocrats, including 
the slaveholders of the South. Is it npt 
enough, my friends, to incense a Democrat, 
and almost cause him to forego the pleasant 
relations of neighborhood courtesy, when he 
sees how these, the Republican politicians 
in our very midst, wilfully, and with malice 
aforethought, whisper the ba.sest lies into the 
ears of confiding Germans and Irish laborers' 
who of right would revolt if thrown out 
of employment by imported slaves from the 
South. 

What adds to the malignity of this 
falsehood, is the fact, that many of 
those who utter it, know full well that 
Southern slaveholders have, in these hard 
times, when money was not to be had else- 
where, freely supplied it, at low rates, to keep 
the laboring people of Minnesota employed. 

Do you know why it is that so many 
Southern slaveholders have come to invest 
their money in Minnesota? They are public 
men and private gentlemen, who have 
friendly and social relations with citizens, 
who are now laboring so zealously to keep 
Minnesota Democratic. Prominent among 
these, as you all know, has been our Dele- 
gate in Congress, Henry M. Rice. His 
politics and urbanity ]ilease the Southern 
men. He told them about Minnesota — as- 
sured them, as he believes that it will be, 
a National Democratic State. He inter- 
ested them in our behalf, not only in Con- 
gress, but here in our midst. They came 
to see , and to wonder, and to be delighted. 
I hope that gentleman, and the other whose 
name will be mentioned, will pardon me 
for lilting the curtain of privacy, and show- 
ing to you the movements of a Southern 
slaveholder among our free white laboring 
men. 

It was not long since, that Gov. Aiken) 
formerly Governor of South Carolina, and 
fur many years a distinguished member 



of Congress from that State, made a visit 
to Minnesota. Mr. Rice took him up to 
see the University buildings, and the Gov- 
ernor was exceedingly gratified to witness 
the progress of that work. But just then 
there was no money in the University Treas- 
ury ; impending dismissal threatened the 
men working on the building. The sym- 
pathies of this southron slaveholder were 
excited, his public spirit was evoked. He 
had a large amount of money here to invest ; 
he could get for it three per cent a month, 
but he preferred lending it to Minnesota at 
twelve per cent per annum, to keep these 
free white laboring men employed, and to 
hasten to completion an edifice, wherein their 
sons may receive the highest education 
without cost. And this gentleman is one of 
the largest slaveholders in the South — cue 
of those against whom the Republican 
leaders labor so hard to prejudice the people 
of Minnesota. I could tell you other in- 
stances of tJie same state of facts, but this 
will sufi^ce for illustration. 

THE SOUTH, THE EL DORADO OF THE NORTH. 

Do you not know that the planting States 
of the South are to the North, the veritable 
El Dorado of the Republic ? Do you not 
know that by the industry of the South, 
the merchants of the North grow rich, and 
rise to the dignity of commercial princes ? 
Do you not know that among the slave mas- 
ters of the South, the mechanics and free 
producers of the North, find their best pay- 
ing customers ? 

0.\E HALF OUR EXPORTS FROM TEE SOUTH. 

Of the large exports from the United 
States to foreign countries, (in all upwards 
of $300,000,000 per annum.) about one half 
goes from Southern ports, of which 
slave grown cotton is the principal staple; 
and our home trade witS the South is 
immense. 

OUR SLAVE GROWN COTTOX LS KIXG OF THE 
WORLD. 

Cotton has ia this century almost sup- 
planted the use of wool throughout the civ- 
ilized world ; but when in the 17th century 
wool was the great staple of England,the lord 
chancellor, the presiding officer of the Brit- 
ish Senate, was seated upon a wool-sack, to 
keep constantly before British patriots 
and statesmen the great fact, that upon the 
growth and manufacture of wool, rested the 
agricultural, manufacturing and commercial 
prosperity of their country. 



The cotton bag has become our wool sack, 
and all well informed men look upon it as 
an essential element of our commercial pros- 
perity. Not only was it our bulwark against 
the British at New Orleans, on the 8th of 
January, lbl.5, but since then, cotton bags 
have been our treaty of peace with the 
British nation, and have saved us the neces- 
sity of costly navies and armies, and corres- 
ponding sacrifice of men and money. Thus 
the South, the abused and maligned South, 
has been, and now is, the safeguard 
and protector of the North, against foreign 
aggression, for England and France must 
have our slave grown cotton. Without it, 
revolution among their own laborers be- 
comes inevitable. 

OUR SLAVE GROWN COTTON, kc, THE BEST 
SUPPORTERS OF THE CAPITAL AND INDUSTRY 
OF THE NORTH. 

Our slave grown cotton, and other pro- 
ducts of the South double the demand 
which would otherwise exist for northern 
ships and northern navigation. These pro- 
ducts and their values pass through the 
hands of northern shipowners, merchants', 
bankers, brokers, mechanics and labor- 
ers, all sharing and enriching themselves 
from the products of slave labor. These 
products then go to foreign nations to keep 
our national balance of trade about even. 
They pay for about half the goods imported 
into our northern ports, upon which all 
classes of northern men, handling the goods 
or their value, get a per centage. And then 
cur northern merchants sell these same 
goods to the South, at a profit ; and thus 
the commercial engine works on from year 
to year, produc ng national results that as- 
tonish the world, and enriching the North 
lieyond all precedent. And yet, these aboli- 
tionists around us, would have the people 
believe that the South is a burthen and a tax 
upon the North ! 

But for the fact of a South — as our rich, 
back, planting, agricultural country, having 
every year 8150,000,000 of marketing which 
the world wants — these shingle-whittling 
abolitionists, would, with their sharp-visaged 
bargains, soon skin each other to death; and 
lose both time and opportunity to go about, 
declaiming against the aristocracy and the 
])0verty (for they charge both in the same 
breath*) of the South. The fact is, that 
without the South, the North could not be 
prosperous and powerful. 



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PROVrDEN.;E ON OUR SIDE. 

When I contemplate this subject in all its 
bearings, ami see how easily dissolved are 
apparent difficulties and dangers, I feel like 
exclaiming with fervent emotion — How 
wonderful are the harmonies of Providence ! 
Surely, we must be the chosen people of 
God, commissioned to work out the salva- 
tion of mankind ! 

A GREAT HISTORICAL FACT I.V FAVOR OF OUR 
HAVING A SOUTH, AS WELL AS A NORTH. 

There is an important historical fact, 
bearing upon the question before us, which 
I would commend to the candid considera- 
tion of educated men, among our oppo- 
nents> It is this: that from the beginning 
of history, all nations which have held rank 
as leading commercial powers, have had 
their tropical or semi-tropical colonies or 
possessions, the labor whereof was servile, 
and the laborers an inferior dark race, di- 
rected and controlled by the will and mind 
of white men. To fiill up the circle of 
commercial prosperity, it seems there must 
be this variety in unity, combining north, 
south, east and west, consisting of free white 
labor where it flourishes in temperate 
climes, and forced dark labor in the tropics. 
If we would continue to grow in power, 
as a commercial nation, we must accept the 
teachings of all history, and the conditions 
of all experience, as our law — our rule of 
action 

To convince yourselves that I have stated 
a great political fact, you have only to look 
into the commercial history of the world. 
WhcH was the period of Athenian glory and 
power? History answers, it was when the 
^gean, semi-tropical colonies, with those 
of Sicily and Asia Minor, were indisputa- 
bly Grrecian possessions. 

When were the Carthagenians in the 
height of their commercial grandeur? His- 
tory answers again, it was when they held 
undisputed possession of their semi-tropical 
Lybian and slave-v/orked possessions of 
Africa and the Mediterranean. And com- 
ing to the commercial nations of modern 
times, and taking them in the order of their 
supremacy, does not this law apply to them 
also? History answers in the affirmative 
and cites the commercial experience of the 
Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch, the 
French and the English; and asserts, the 
fact that just in proportion as these nations 
have gained or lost tropical or semi-tropical 



possessions, worked by the servile labor of a 
dark and inferior race — ^^just in that propor- 
tion have they risen or fallen in comraericial 
importance among the nations of the earth. 
This is no theory, no doctrine, but histori- 
cal fact. 

THIS HLSTORICAL FACT AND OUR SOUTH. 

This law of commercial power, is just as 
applicable to our own country as any other. 
The Southern States are our semi-tropical 
possessions. There, the labor of the inferior 
negro race, is directed by the superior intel- 
lect of the white man, on a better system of 
servile labor, a more humane system, than 
has ever existed in any other commercial 
nation. Of course, 1 admit, that there are 
gross abuses in southern slavery — that there 
are reforms which ought to be made in the 
system. Let good men everywhere, Xorth 
and South, work for reform, but not for de- 
struction of a great necessity, because of 
incidental wrong. The good man will 
everywhere do his work in accordance with 
conscience, humanity and the Law of God. 
Fanatics only, attempt to rise superior to 
Divine Law, to build up for themselves a 
tower of Babel, with all its bewilderment of 
thought and confusion of tongues. 

INDIA IS ENGL.\ND'S SOUTH. 

At this moment England is threatened 
with the loss of her tropical and semi-tropi- 
cal India, the rich Koohinoor jewel of her 
crown. India is her " South." India is her 
rich slaveholding country, containing 150,- 
000,000 of servile laborers, whom, by an in- 
nocent fiction of philology, Englishmen call 
" free." It is conceded on all sides that the 
loss of India, will sink that great nation to 
the rank of an inferior power. Therefore it 
is, that we of America, warmly sympathize 
v/ith England, and pray for her safe deliver- 
anca from the present terrible Sepoy rebel- 
lion. This is not a war of England against 
Russia, or any other friendly nation of our 
own original blood, in which we might be 
against her, but it is a war of races in which 
our only natural place is on her side. — 
By the time she comes out of this servile 
war, may we not hope that loyal English- 
men will learn thencetbrth to withhold their 
interference in our political afliiirs, and 
cease their cohabitation with our abo- 
litionists, wham they have so long been nurs- 
ing and fattening for a sacrifice, in the war 
of dissolution, expected by them, to take 
place between the North "and the South! 



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From which all national men pray " Good 
Lord deliver us." 

WHY CALL SLAVEHOLDESS WICKED ? 

Why, is it our duty to denounce Southern 
slavery as an institution in its very essence 
evil and wiched ? Did the holding of ne- 
gro slaves make Washington, Jeffersuii, or 
Jackson wicked men ? "But I am not an 
abolitionist," says a Republican. Then, why 
join in the clamor against the South? — 
If the experience of the last quarter of ^ a 
century, in the AVest India Islands — in St. 
Domingo and Jamaica shows the madness of 
abolition, why keep up th clamor against 
Southern slaveholders? The slave emanci- 
pation party used to be almost exclusively 
made up of Southern slaveholders — of the 
Statesmen and Christians of the South. — 
They were ready to make any sacrifice for 
the sake of a principle, as they did in the 
days of the Revolution; They emancipated 
as an experiment, from 1830 to 18.50, 200, 
000 negro slaves. They sent some to Libe- 
ria, some to Hayti, others to the free States, 
provided with guardians, outfits, lands and 
money. Thus have the slaveholders silent 
money enough in the work cf negro slave 
emancipation to buy up the whole Black 
Republic of the North, including its strong- 
minded women,, and free-loving Atheists, and 
to pay besides the cost of shipping ofi" the 
whole party to Africa. 

SACRIFICES MADE BY SLAVEHOLDERS FROM A 

SENSE OF DUTY', TO TEST THE EXPERIMEXT OF 

EMANCIPATION. 

All this sacrifice made by the South, to 
test a theory of negro capacity for free 
work and self-government, has met no other 
reward but bitter disappointment- The Li- 
berian colony languishes, even with all their 
help. The negroes sent among their affec- 
tionate, mouthing friends of the free States 
become, with few exceptions, lazy, worth- 
less and vagrant, and soon disappear in an 
unnatural conflict with free white labor. — 
Therefore it is, that Southern men, origi- 
nally hoping, like Jefferson, for the emanci- 
pation and elevation of the negro race, and 
ready to make any sacrifice for it, have been 
compelled to abandon all such theories, and 
make the best of their necessities. 

This is the moment seized upon by the 
Black Republicans to make a forlorn on- 
slought towards the South, not on the South 
in fact, but at the National Democracy, 



who stand in the gap of union between the 
North and the South. 

THE SOUTH, SAY THE REPUBLICANS, HAS BEEN 
GROWING TOO FAST — IS IT nO ? 

The hybrid class of Republican politi- 
cians,after their yelling charge on the South, 
invariably fall back in confusion, the mo- 
ment we turn our batteries upon them. Af- 
ter a few shots from our good old gun, Con- 
stitution, they oifer to surrender upon the 
whole question of negro slavery in the States. 
It is then, to slaveholders coming into free 
States,to catch their fugitives, that they are 
opposed. When in reply, we show that 
this right is one of the compacts of the 
Constitution, they surrender again, but have 
a new plea for their political action. The 
South, say they, is growing too fast ; it is 
getting too powerful, and they drape more 
than half the map of the United Statesin 
mourning, making it as black as the prin- 
ciples -of their own party, to convince the 
people of the -North that the Southern 
slaveholders have cheated and wronged them. 

Yes, say they, the South has been grow- 
ing too fast — too much new territory has 
been added to the South— thereby increas- 
ing too rapidly southron power. Is not 
this an increase in the power and prosperity 
of the whole Union ? 

Would they, to spite the South, sell back 
Louisiana and its slavery to France ? And 
remember, fellow-citizens, that all there is of 
Minnesota, west of the Mississippi — all 
there is of Iowa and of Kansas, and all the 
country westward, to the Rocky Mountains, 
with all its free soil, was, when purchased, 
part of the slave Territory of Louisiana. 

Would they give Texas back to Mexico, 
or give it to England, or dis-annex it, to 
build up on our borders a rival republic 
of our own kindred? I ask, what harm 
have Louisiana, and Texas, and Florida, 
(all acquired in accordance with Democratic 
policy,) inflicted upon the country, that we 
should, on account of their acquisition, iiang 
the Map of the Union in black, and form a 
Northern party to war upon the South? 

Down again, the hybrid Republican, 
(hybrid, because national in sympathies, 
and a traitorous Abolitionist for tlie sake 
of office)— down again He lies upon the 
ground, and says it is not that, but the 
uojnst Mexican war, he is opposed to. 
Well, will he give back the territory ac- 
quired by that war, to ^Mexico, with all its 
free soil and its golden State, Caltfornia? 



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aim the glad tidings of Democratic 
uniDh, to all the world. 



tri- 



Crawling up towards the wall, the hybrid Wednesday of October next, be able to pro 

Republican, by this time, pretends that that ' '' '■•-■■'■ -'• ^^ ^•- 

is not exactly what he means. What he 

means to hold the Democracy and the South 

responsible for, is, "Kansas — bleeding Kaa- 

sas," 

AND WHAT ABOUT KANSAS ? 

Congress gave to the people of Kansas a 
free and untramelled right to form their own 
domestic institutions, and to pass any laws 
that would be constitutional in a State. 
Thereupon the abolitionists, with Sumner 
and Chase, and Mrs. Stowe as their gene- 
rals (commanding from afar), rallied their 
forces and insultingly challenged the whole 
South to meet them in Kansas, and there 
fight out on that ungcnial soil the battle of 
slavery. Natural enough, the people of 
Missouri did not want the whole under- 
ground railroad company for their neigh- 
bors, so the most excitable of them called 
for help from the South, to drive the aboli- 
tionists back. 

In this absurd fight between the extremes 
of the North and the South, upon a soil 
where, in the natural course of things, slavery 
cannot and will not exist, both parties have 
trampled upon law and order, but what right 
have the abolitionists to complain against 
the South, for getting some broken heads 
and bloody noses, in a fight of their own 
seeking ? The only trouble among the party 
of the Black Republic on the Kansas 
qiiestion just nuw, is simply this : that after 
all their outlay of Sharpe's rifles, bad 
blood and golden treasure, Kansas will be 
free and their Othello's occupation will be 
gone ! What a fall will there lie then, my 
countrymen, among the abolitionists, whose 
bloody treason has not triumphed over us ; 
and what an escape for our Great Repub- 
lic, from the alarm and dreaded calamities 
of a sectional and frati'acidal war I 

The more intelligent of our opponents, 
when at last th^y see we have driven them 
to the wall, yield every thing; they even go 
for squatter sovereignty, "to the fullest ex- 
tent," including the election of (Governor. 
The last and only objection they have to us, 
is, that we dont't go far enough, ^\''e^, 
well, all we have to say to them, and all other 
citizens of Minnesota, is, if you agree with 
the L>eniocratic policy — give, like consistent 
and honorable men, yoiu' influence and your 
votes in support of the l^emocratic ticket — 
that we may, on the morning of the second 



Afl<leikfla t" tlie Syeecli of D. A. RiiOLit- 

SOII. 

Extracts FROM the Farewell Address of 

George Washington, the Father of 

THE Repcblic. 

The unity of government, which consti- 
tutes you one people, is also now dear to you. 
It is justly so ; for it is a main pillar in the 
edifice of your real independence — the sup- 
port of your tranquility at home, your peace 
abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity, 
ol that very liberty which you so highly 
prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, 
from different causes and from different quar- 
ters, much pains will be taken, many artifi- 
ces employed, to weaken in your minds the 
conviction of this truth ; as this is the point 
in your political fortress against which the 
batteries of internal and external enemies 
will be most constantly and actively (though 
often covertly and insidiously) directed, — it 
is of infinite moment that you should prop- 
erly estimate the immense value of } our na- 
tional union to your collective and individ- 
ual happiness ; that you should cherish a 
cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment 
to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and 
speak of it as of the palladium of your po- 
litical safety and prosperity ; watching for 
its preservation with jealous anxiety ; dis- 
countenancing whatever may suggest even 
a suspicion that it can, in any event, be 
abandoned ; and indignantly frowning upon 
the first dawning of every attempt to alien- 
ate any portion of our country from the rest, 
or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link 
together the various parts. * * * * 

^i'he North, in an unrestrained intercourse 
with the South, protected by the equal laws 
of a common government, finds, in the pro- 
ductions of the latter, great additional re- 
sources of maritime and commercial enter- 
prise, and precious materials of manufactu- 
ring industry. The South, iu the same in- 
tercourse, benefitting by the agency of the 
North, sees its agriculture grow, and its 
coir niprce expand. Turning partly into its 
own channels the seamen ol the North, it 
finds its particular navigation invigorated ; 
and while it contributes, in different ways, 
to nourish and increase the general mass of 
the national navigation, it looks forward to 



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the protection of a maritime strength to 
which itself is unequally adapted. 
******** 

These considerations speak a persuasive 
lauguage to every reflecting and virtuous 
mind, and exhibit the continuance of the 
Union as a primary object of patriotic de- 
sire. 

With such powerful and obvious motives 
to Union, aSfecting all parts cf our country, 
while experience shall not have demonstra- 
ted its impracticability, there will always be 
reason to distrust the patriotism of those who, 
in any quarter, 7nay endeavor to weaken its 
bands. 

In contemplating the causes which may 
disturb your Union, it occurs, as a matter of 
serious concern, that any ground should 
have been furnished for characterizing par- 
ties by geographical discriminations— North- 
ern and Southern — Atlantic and Western : 
whence designing men may endeavor to ex- 
cite a belief that there is a real diSerence jo 
local interests and views. One of the expe- 
dients of party to acquire influence loithin 
particular districts, is to misrepresent the 
opinions and aims of other districts. You 
cannot shield yourselves too much against 
the jealousies and heart-burnings which 
spring from these misrepresentations : they 
tend to render alien to each other those who 
ought to be bound together by fraternal af- 
fection. 

I add the following in corroboration of my 
remarks to prove that the old abolition par- 
ty was the progenitor of the modern Repub- 
lican party, and that the two are, in fact, 
only sections of the same party of geograph- 
ical agitators, who are working in concert 
against the union, the good name and pros- 
perity of the Republic, under the pretence c^ 
"opposition to slavery extension .■" — 

The Anti-slavery Society, which com- 
menced its agitations in 1833, in its then 
adopted platform, declared in article 2d of 
its constitution : 

"While it [the Society] admits that each 
State in which slavery exists, has by the 
constitution of the United States the exclu- 
sive right to legislate in regard to its aboli- 
tion in said State, it shall aim to convince 
all our fellow citizens by arguments addressed 
to their understandings and consciences that 



slaveholdiug is a heinous crime in the sight 
of God, and that the duty, safety and best 
interests of all concerned, require its imme- 
diate abandonment without expatriation.— 
The society will endeavor in a constitutional 
way to influence Congress" &c — 

At that time the anti-slavery society, 
which is the vanguard of the Republican 
pa»ty of this day, had not progressed 
to the position of a disunion party. Their 
weapon then was only "moral suasion." — 
Since then, however, they have made prodi- 
gious advances in a bad direction, in which 
process they have thrown out into the poli- 
tical field their Black Republican wing, to 
perform the work of a guerilla force in cut- 
ting off the stragglers of the Democratic 
and old whig parties. 

This Anti-slavery Society, the parent stock 
of the modern Republicans, now openly ad- 
vocate the dissolution of the Union ! 

In the published proceedings (by the So- 
ciety) of their annual meeting at Boston, 
in May 18.53, the President, Wm. Lloyd 
Garrison made a "great" speech, from 
which we extract the toUowino; : 

"On many points, slowly but surely, we have 
arrived at great unanimity of sentiment. We 
are general y agreed in the opinion, the Wliig 
party of the country is foully pro-slavery, and 
therefore ought to be abandoned. We are equal- 
ly convinced, thiit the Democratic party is ut- 
terly subservient to the Slave Power, and thor- 
oughly polluted, from which it is the the duty 
of every pure minded man and every true Dem- 
Oi^rat to withdraw. We also atilrm that a 
Church, claiming to be the Church of Christ, 
and yet having no bowels of mercy for the op- 
pressed, nay, receiving slaveholders and slave- 
breeders to its communion table, is a Church 
with which no Christian abolitionist ought to 
be connected ; and that, it there be one thus 
associated with it, he is bound, by his fide ity 
to God and the slave, to withdraw' from it, and 
register his testimony against it as an auti- 
Christian body. 

We come now to the question of wi hdrawal 
from the go^e^ament, m consequence of the 
pro-slavery compromises of the Constitution. 
On this point, wiiile the members of the Amer- 
ican Anti-Slavery Society are now generally 
agreed, [that is to dissolve the Union.] the pro- 
fessed friends of the slave, acting in other re- 
lations, are very much divided. They advo- 
cate various and discordant notions about the 
Constitution. 

What if we differ ad infanitum as to the ap- 
plication of the principle by which we profes3 
to be governed? ' 



14 



Garrison then excuses himself for con- leading Republican member of Congress 
sistency's sake, on account of '= criticisms " from Ohio; and in the late Republican Con- 
on the Republican leaders, who do BOt yet vention of that State, the great gnn of his 



go quite as far as he, in advocating the im 
mediate dissolution of the Union and the iL- 
stitution of a Black Republic of the North ; 
but he approves in the same remarks the 



party, in a late letter to the Abolitionist, 
Elihu Burritt, says : 

'• We have ourselves paid money to redeera 
soutliern slaves until we have become disgust- 
ed with the practice, and prefer that our future 



nrflindnvv in other respects of his Repub- donations shall be made in powder and ball, 

ortiioaoxj m omer rt^bp^^ib ui uis i ^^^ ^_ ^ delivered to the slaves, to be used as 

lican allies, as follows : they may deem proper." 

'•But the inquiry is frequently made, "Why Mrs. Stowe made a trip to Great Britain 

i^ritiri'p and arraisrn such men as Charles Sum- , ^i i /• ^i i i. i-» -j i- i 

ner, Hw-ace Mannt and John P. Hale?' Let several months before the kst Presidential 

them go, forsooth, because they make good campaign, as the strong minded representa- 

f^^^IL^^'l^a^^^^-^X tiveof\he Abolitionists and Republicans, 

resist the usurpations of the Slave Power! Why to raise money for the election of Fremont, 

sir, do we not gratefully acknowledge all that , . , , •;, flpnominated "the more 

they do for the slave, and give them lull credit T^vliica Slie mere cienommaxea lae moie 

for it? The anti-slavery speeches of Mann, of comprehensive Anti- Slavery movement;" the 

^^i£^\^SS^^'^^^^^ g--t work, as she explains it, of the Union 



—(loud applause) ; and 1 think I have not been dissolvers and negro stealers, being to create 

'Sll^^^'S^^^^^^^'^tY:^ ''Ihefeding- "necessary" to produce the 

one,! must be beside myself, if I can quarrel "po/i^ica/," that is the Republican " 

with them for being faithful to our cause. ' , „ 



■ move- 



ment. 



The anti-slavery Society has published a ^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^j^^ ^,.^.^^^ ^^^, Abolition 

series of tracts, which are purchased and ^^.^^^^ .^ Edinburgh. In her remarks at 

circulated by abolition Republicans when- ^^^.^ ..gatherings" which were reported 

ever they may be useful to their cause.— ^j^j^ ^.^^^^ approbation by two Edinburgh 

Several of these tracts advocate the dissolu- papers, she thanked her British friends for 

tion of the Union, 6ecaM.se the Constitution their '• donations," "aid," and '-testimony," 

+T, „•„+«, «^ r>f ciovo <5tatPQ in behalf of negro-stealing and "fAe/zJorccom- 
rpfoo'iiizes the existei ce or slave oiaies. — , „ -r. i i- , * a tt„ 

reou^uj/.cs luc c.vioi,<.i.vv- prehmsive Republican '-movements." Her 

expose of the Black Republic is to the 
point. 

I vouch for the correctness of the sub- 
joined extracts from her remarks, which I 



as a 



I quote the following from Tract No. 
specimen of Abolition treason : 

'•The Constitution requires of the general gov- 
ernment the protection of slavery in such of 

^S^S^uK/abohtlJT'teS^l'iie^'p^h^t: cut'fi^m the Edinburgh papers of October 
citizen has no course left to Wm but either to last : 



aid in upholding the system, or renounce his 
allegiance to the government. His only choice 
is between slaveholding and revolution." 

"Our first great work is to cut this (Jordian 
knot,— the Union— and set free the northern 
conscience from the restraints of the constitu- 
tional oath. Till this is done, ail other ellbrts 



From Uie Scouish I'ress. 

"She [Mrs. Stow] met her anti-slavery friends 
in social gatherings, and cheered them by her 
intelligence and hopes respecting the state of 
matters in America. Among others, she met 
the members of the Ladies' Emancipation Com- 
mittee, and encouraged them to luirsue their 



__^ _ uiic, ail uiiici vLiviKn miuee, anu eucoui.igeu luciu lu imiouv luv-u 

will prove of little avail. There is no hope for present course, for every honest etlbrt is of the 
the slave, nor for the country, but in revolu- utmost value to the cause. She gave an inter- 
lion." esting sketch of the dlHereiit parties in the 

AArT.vr>ip. I p. IT! T tps the Treat le^'al star United States, and explained the relative im- 

We>dell Fhii.mps, tne ^reai le ai star ^^^.^^^^^ ^^^^^^_ Stimpatbiizm^ «'.//. thepolit- 

Of Abolitionism, says, in his '' hevino of ical moxcments now lakirigplace,\she dwelt strong- 

c ..'. l\:n„--' li, on n-hat site conKidcrcdtlie duty of supporting 

Spoonei s LssaiJ . ^^^ anli-slaver,/ Prcsidentkd candidate, from 

■ No matter what the Constitution IS, wlieth- . •. . - ■ ..- ^^ ^i.- 



or good or bad, it is -.he duty of every honest 
man to join in the war-cry of the Aiiiencan 
Anti-Slavery Society, ' Ao Union wttli slave- 
hoiderf' " 

The "//on." Joshua R. Giddinos 



tnc ufiti-oitti ri y * , cwii*i . ....... ^. --T V- - -- 

whose election siie hopes for great results to the 
cause of the slave, not only in regard to the ad- 
mission of Kansas, as an expression of public 
opinion, but also bccau-e the President has the 
appointment of persons to all the State offices, 
a id to have all these hlled with auli-slaveiy 



15 



men would be of essential service. She, more- 
over, pointed ontthe important mission pursued 
by those Abolitionists of the American Anti- 
Slavery Society, who, outside of politics, are 
upholding uncompromisingly the anti- slavery 
standard, and by their earnest agitation in the 
van of public sentiment create the feeling 
which is the necessary foundation of all anti- 
slavery movements — wh'ither political or bene- 
volent. She expressed her gratitude to those 
who helped the cause in this country by dona- 
tions for the help of the fugitives from slavery, 
as well as for the elevati n of the colored race, 
and by other similar tokens of sympathy, not 
forgetting those who gave their aid and testi- 
mony in support of the more comprehensive 
anti-slavery operations. 

* * * * * * * * 

Mrs. Stow said, also : 

"Almost always in politics there occur com- 
promises — little leanings towards expediency ; 
but this band of disinteres'ed men [the Garrison 
Abolitionists] bear aloft an uncompromising 
standard, which they will not lower, but to 
which they seek to draw up the popular senti- 
ment. Their earnest agitaUon is of great value 
to th4 cause [of the Republican party] and 
those who coniribute to their aid through the 
Boston Bazaar, miy feel satisfied that its pro- 
ceeds are faithfully and judiciously expended." 

We might go on quoting proofs ad infini- 
tum to show the traitorous character of all 
the wings of the abolition army, including 
the Eepublicans. 

At this moment, the Republican orators, 
for the sake of votes, may conceal or deny a 
part of their treason to the Union. I have 
just taken casually, from a bundle of Daily 
Minnc-sotians, the number of that journal, of 
the 25th of June last, from which I cut the 
subjoined article, copied into that paper 
from the Albany Journal, the Central Re- 
publican organ of the State of New York. 
It shows the avowed identity in point of 
fact, of the Garrison and Ramsey abolition- 
ists. 

The Albany Journal is Seward's organ ; 
the Minnesoiian, ex-Gov. Ramsey's : 

False Hopes.— The enemies of the Republi- 
can party are just now regarding themselves 
with the idea that if Kansas becomes a free 
State the basis of the party is gone. Mistaken 
souls ! The contest between liberty and des- 
potism is everlasting. We have now had only 
one phase of it. For twenty, perhaps fifty 
years to come, the agitation of the slavery 
question as it relates to this country is to go on 
increasing in a ratio, compared with which that 
of the last ten years is snail paced. We not un- 
frequently hear some well preserved old fogy 



bewailiijg ttie violence of the present contro- 
versy, when if he had but half an eye, he might 
forsee that what is coming will make the pres- 
ent agitation seem but the murmuring of the 
impending storm. Despotism cannot remain 
in repose. It is forever encroaching upon free- 
dom. The history of the Old World proves this 
no less than that of our own country. In Amer- 
ica the progress of tyranny is marked by such 
steps as the stealing of Texas, the Fugitive 
Slave Bill, the Nebraska Swindle, and the Ured- 
Scott Decision. What will be the next outrage 
it is unnecessary to predict. It is enough that 
we know that it will exceed all previous ones- 
K any Republican imagines that he has only en. 
listed for a brief campaign he will soon be un- 
deceived. 

Just as certainly, if our opponents suppose 
that they can raise any new issue-~auy '-tin pan 
clatter," as the Evening Post terms it- will they 
be disappointed. The battle must go on. The 
greenhorn in Broadway, New York, who stands 
waiting for the crowd to pass by before he 
crosses the street, is not more simple than those 
politicians who intend to mount their particu- 
lar hobby anew as the slavery agitation sub- 
sides. Instead of the excitement being ended 
or about to subside, it has but just begun. The 
Charleston Mercury, more sagacious than its 
Northern allies, snuf.s the breeze, when it says 
that the opinions held by Garrison and Gerrit 
Smith, ten or fifteen years ago would now be 
considered conservative and Hunkerish. — Al- 
bany Journal. 

In concluding this addenda, the attention 
of every voter is called to the following ex- 
tracts, which exhibit the effect almost inva- 
riably ]5roduced upon the educated minds of 
England, and of Europe generally, by the 

revolutionary movements of the abolitionists 
and Republicans of this country. 

Extract from the Westminster Review of 
July last — article on American Union: 

"The one thing we are sure of is. that the old 
Constitution, laden with new corruptions, can- 
not serve and sustain the Republic. We believe 
that if a radical reconstitution is not immedi- 
ately agreed upon, there must be a dissolution 
cf the Union. — the slave States being subject to 
the curse of a military despotism, and the perils 
of a servile war. It hardly appears that there 
can be a question about this ; but o'' the issue 
we cannot venture to vaticinate. Our trust is, 
that the Abolationists will not abate a jot of 
that strong will which renders them the real 
antagonists of the South ; that they will press 
on the more strenuously as the critical moment 
discloses itself." 

From the Lon«To& Press, of Nov. 1, 

18.06. /y '^^ ' 

" A dissolution »f the Amer-i^an Union would 
seem to be thiS-only possibly l^jmination of the 
struggle upon the slave T}'uest|ftn." * 

* *• -• * lifc • * 

•'From two Arfterjcasfeujtppe w'Uhave noth- 
ing to fear." ■ hJi .♦ D. A. R. 









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